The Milewski Nature Fund

One Sacred Moment

One Sacred Moment  is an installation of poem slips.  Tied to tree branches in specific areas.  In Chicago we tied them around the area that Beyond Wood--A Land Acknowledgement was taking place.  We have now been invited to tie these poem slips in several cities across the nation and we look forward to working with each community to install these wonderful words block printed on handmade paper imbedded with seeds. The poem slips hold the poem One Sacred Moment...with You. Click on the button below to read this wonderful poem:










One Sacred Moment follows the tradition of hanging brightly colored strips of paper with poems written on them in trees during certain times of year generally in the fall and spring.  Popularized by the Japanese in the 17th century and captured in certain artworks of that time and in remembrance of that time, Japan still holds a holiday in the summer which involves writing wishes on the paper and hanging the slips on bamboo.  Other cultures have displayed poetry and other written words in nature for at least a millennia.  Artist Vicki Milewski continues a practice she started as a teenager when she would handwrite her poems on handmade paper and hang them in trees around the town she grew up in.  Today she brings messages of the importance of community and family to this practice involving others in the creation of the Poem Slip Trees.  She has even cultivated bamboo in order to pay homage to the Japanese practice.

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One Sacred Moment is on display right now, please contact Galaudet Gallery to find a location.  One Sacred Moment is available for display please contact MNF to become a part of this remarkable display of poetry in motion with words speaking about community, family, conservationism and 21st Century sacred moments.

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